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United Parcel Service

American international package delivery company
Organization business Q155026
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 19 annual filings
Revenue
$88.66B
▼ 2.6% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$5.57B
▼ 3.6% YoY FY2025
Assets
$73.09B
▲ 4.3% YoY FY2025
EPS (diluted)
$6.56
▼ 2.8% YoY FY2025
$0.00$27.59B$55.19B$82.78B$110.37B FY2007: $49.69B · NI $382.00M (0.8% margin)FY2008: $51.49B · NI $3.00B (5.8% margin)FY2009: $45.30B · NI $1.97B (4.3% margin)FY2010: $49.55B · NI $3.34B (6.7% margin)FY2011: $53.10B · NI $3.80B (7.2% margin)FY2012: $54.13B · NI $807.00M (1.5% margin)FY2013: $55.44B · NI $4.37B (7.9% margin)FY2014: $58.23B · NI $3.03B (5.2% margin)FY2015: $58.36B · NI $4.84B (8.3% margin)FY2016: $61.61B · NI $3.42B (5.6% margin)FY2017: $66.58B · NI $4.91B (7.4% margin)FY2018: $71.86B · NI $4.79B (6.7% margin)FY2019: $74.09B · NI $4.44B (6.0% margin)FY2020: $84.63B · NI $1.34B (1.6% margin)FY2021: $97.29B · NI $12.89B (13.2% margin)FY2022: $100.34B · NI $11.55B (11.5% margin)FY2023: $90.96B · NI $6.71B (7.4% margin)FY2024: $91.07B · NI $5.78B (6.3% margin)FY2025: $88.66B · NI $5.57B (6.3% margin) '07'09'11'13'15'17'19'21'23'25
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-008432

Summary

United Parcel Service is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 0.38% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,960 views/month, #113 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Federal Association of Parcel and Express Logistics[3]
  • Country: United States[4], US[5]
  • Instance of: public company[6]
  • Founder: James E. Casey[7]
  • Owned by: The Vanguard Group[8], BlackRock[9]
  • Headquarters location: Sandy Springs[10], Neuss[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Carol Tomé[12]
  • Child organization or unit: The UPS Store[13], UPS Capital[14], UPS Airlines[15]
  • Part of: Dow Jones Transportation Average[16], S&P 100[17], S&P 500[18]
  • Commons category: United Parcel Service[19]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[20]
  • Industry: delivery[21], logistics[22]
  • Chairperson: David Abney[23]
  • Inception: August 28, 1907[24], 1999-07-15[25]
  • Location of formation: Seattle[26]
  • Official website: https://www.ups.com/[27], https://www.ups.com.tr/[28]
  • Topic's main category: Category:United Parcel Service[29]
  • Described at URL: http://www.namebase.net:82/names/nn01.cgi?UNITED_PARCEL_SERVICE[30]
  • Employees: 434,000[31], 444,000[32], 362,000[33]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[34], XTIQ[35]
  • Has characteristic: Fortune 500 companies who have provided financial support to members of Congress who sought to invalidate the 2020 presidential election results[36]
  • Owner of: UPS Airlines[37], CACH[38], Worldport[39]
  • Different from: United States Postal Service[40]
  • Total equity: 1,030,000,000 US dollars[41]
  • Total revenue: 84,628,000,000 US dollars[42], 74,094,000,000 US dollars[43], 71,861,000,000 US dollars[44], 97,287,000,000 US dollars[45], 49,692,000,000 US dollars[46], 51,486,000,000 US dollars[47], 45,297,000,000 US dollars[48], 49,545,000,000 US dollars[49], 53,105,000,000 US dollars[50], 54,127,000,000 US dollars[51], 55,438,000,000 US dollars[52], 58,232,000,000 US dollars[53], 58,363,000,000 US dollars[54], 60,906,000,000 US dollars[55]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): D01LMJZU09ULLNCY6Z23[56]

  • Registered legal name: United Parcel Service, INC.[57]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[58]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[59]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[60]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[61]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[62]

  • Entity created: 1999-07-15[63]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-06-06[64]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-11-03[65]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-11-13[66]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[67]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[68]

  • Authority entity ID: 3070406[69]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[70]

Why It Matters

United Parcel Service has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[71] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[72]

It is credited with the discovery of MaxiCode[73], founded in 1992[74].

FAQs

What did United Parcel Service discover?

United Parcel Service is credited as discoverer of MaxiCode[73].

Related Entities

BlackRock business Côr Meibion Rhos New York Stock Exchange public company The Vanguard Group United States United States Postal Service

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . pressroom.ups.com. pressroom.ups.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  32. [34] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  5. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [65] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [66] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [67] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [68] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [69] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [70] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [73] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [74] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [71] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [72] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 4BE9-B3AC-EDE8-7945-9D8D
    Consumer rights wiki article id → 5142
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  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4cymYf
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  3. 14w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14536 → 387434
    National library of israel j9u id → 987013316997505171
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  4. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Chief executive officer → Scott Davis, David Abney, Michael Eskew +4
    Country → United States, US
    Owner of → UPS Airlines, CACH, Worldport
    Owned by → —
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